The CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord will testify before the US Senate on child safety::On January 31st, 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X CEO Linda Yaccarino, and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before the US Senate during a hearing on child safety.
I think these companies hold at least some responsibility to not push things like hate speech and conspiracy theories at users they know are children. They shouldn’t have to make the whole experiment “G” rated, but they also shouldn’t be allowed to push things at kids that when confronted about them, the same company states those things break their TOS and shouldn’t be on their platform to begin with.
Generally, I think the law in the US is that a good faith attempt must at least be made to keep stuff like extremist speech and illegal content off websites. Big site owners can’t wink and nod about it (or shout loudly like they do on Twitter), and they can’t secretly refuse to enforce rules to maximize profits (like they do on Facebook etc).
And by “can’t” I mean “shouldn’t,” because I strongly doubt these companies will be held responsible for much.
Yeah exactly, it should require an extra click to get to porn and outright bigotry shouldn’t be allowed